Betlémské náměstí hosts live music, exhibitions, tours for a cultural night

The eighth edition of the cultural block party Betlémská kulturní noc will take place in and around Betlémské náměstí on September 10, with events from 3 pm to midnight.

Some 20 local
institutions have prepared a program both in the open air and
indoors. There will be several exhibition openings, live music, film
screenings, performances, culinary stops, walking tours, and a
children’s program. The primary language for the event is Czech.

The opening takes
place at 6:10 pm. The exhibition, which incorporates video,
sculpture, painting, architecture, and other art forms runs until
October 10.

Galerie Jaroslava Fragnera will have a second opening called Cloud 69, exploring 25 years of planning by architectural studio A69. This exhibition runs until October 28.

The same gallery
will have a musical program starting at 5:45 with pianist Jan Bartoš,
and later concerts by Vladivojna La Chia &
4Tria, Michal Ambrož & Hudba Praha, and finally Josef Sedlon.

The Náprstkovo muzeum (Náprstek Museum) will also be open, with an outdoor photographic exhibit and a workshop on traditional crafts from China. The exhibition starts is at 5 pm and the workshop at 6 pm.

Galerie
U Prstenu on Jilska Street will have a guided tour of its current
exhibition When the statue falls (Když socha padá), led by the
artists. The works are by students of Karel
Nepraš from the early 1990s, as well as by Nepraš and his first
assistant Jiří Plieštik. This starts at
6 pm.

Galerie
Fotografic has an opening called Architecture of Evidence featuring
abstract-like photographs by Valentyn Odnoviun taken in prisons of
former oppressive regimes in Eastern Europe. “The series show how
images can become evidence of an event and create a paradoxical
perception. They call into question the relation between what we see
and what we perceive before the act of recognition,” the
gallery states. Music at
the opening is by DJ Filip.

Donuterie and Point
Gallery also have openings.

Aside
from the already mentioned music, there will be country music on a
stage in Betlémské náměstí from
5 pm to 7 pm, and
a jazz orchestra at Champagneria from 8 pm.

The film archives at Ponrepo will show a film from 4 pm to 11 pm, showing the 7 hour film CzechMate: Searching for Jiří Menzel. People will be aloud to enter and leave during the projection. The cinema cafe will a special Bollywood menu.

Champagneria plans a blind wine tasting from 4 to 7 pm. Not to be outdone, Mezičasy Café has a blind coffee tasting at 4 and 6 pm. There will also be food stalls on Betlémské náměstí from 5 pm to 7 pm.

Prague
City Tourism will give guided tours of the Betlémské
náměstí area at 3 pm, 5 pm and 6:30 pm.
The Dominican Cloister will have tours at 4 pm and 9 pm.

Spoken
word, discussions, and literary events will be at Artspace, Galerie
U Prstenu, Galerie Jaroslava Fragnera, the
Dominican Cloister, Donuterie and Duende. The latter will have a
poetry slam at 8 pm.